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Author John C. Bogle is the former chairman and CEO of The Vanguard Mutual Fund Group, the world's largest pure no-load mutual fund company. In 1976, he conceptualized, developed and introduced the world's first index fund for the individual investor. This brand new investment product revolutionized the financial marketplace. In the words of Dr. Paul Samuelson of M.I.T., "The creation of the first index fund by John Bogle was the equivalent of the invention of the wheel and the alphabet." Today, index funds account for $1 trillion in invested funds. Everyone from investment genius Warren Buffett to Nobel Laureates Samuelson, William Sharpe and Daniel Kahneman recommend index funds for the typical investor. Bogle explains what index funds do and why they are reliable investments in this exhaustively researched, carefully reasoned, highly accessible, common sense book. If you are an investor, getAbstract believes you should take Bogle seriously; after all, he invented this alternative.

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Intelligent Investing Benjamin Graham's Intelligent Investor was published in 1949. He was considered his era's most astute money manager, and his book is a classic of sound investment advice. He points out that most investors do not have the professional training, expertise, or time to...

About the Author

John C. Bogle is the founder and former chairman and CEO of one of the largest mutual fund companies in the world. He is an author of numerous popular books on investments. In 2004, TIME named him as one of the world's 100 most powerful and influential people.